Despite a growing body of research devoted to the study of how humans encode
environmental patterns, there is still no clear consensus about the nature of the …

Statistical-learning (SL) theory offers an experience-based account of typical and atypical
spoken and written language acquisition. Recent work has provided initial support for this …

English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom uses research-based insights to examine bottom-
up skills in reading English as a second language. This fourth edition clearly presents core …

Statistical views of literacy development maintain that proficient reading requires the
assimilation of myriad statistical regularities present in the writing system. Indeed, previous …

A compelling demonstration of implicit learning is the human ability to unconsciously detect
and internalize statistical patterns of complex environmental input. This ability, called …

There is profound and long-standing debate over the role of explicit instruction in reading
acquisition. In this research, we investigated the impact of teaching regularities in the writing …

Statistical learning is a learning mechanism that does not directly depend on knowledge of a
language but predicts language and literacy outcomes for children and adults. Research …

Studies of non‐linguistic statistical learning (SL) have often linked performance in SL tasks
with differences in language outcomes. Most of these studies have focused on Western and …

As children learn to read, they become sensitive to context-dependent vowel pronunciations
in words, considered a form of statistical learning. The work of Treiman and colleagues …

Statistical learning (SL), the ability to pick up patterns in sensory input, serves as one of the
building blocks of language acquisition. Although SL has been studied extensively in …